2 posts tagged “earworms”
Share your current favorite song or music video.
I'm concerned by Mr. Byrne's apparent inability to find a suit that actually fit him at any point during the '80s. He had all those huge ones, and then this one is teeny -- the pants are in between Pee-Wee Herman and emo-boi jeans. This sort of thing is why bespoke tailoring will never die....
While adding stripedsocks as a friend (and a particularly excellent one, too; she's one of my favorite knit wits, one who keeps practicing on me with fabulous results, and she saves the lives of doggies and kitties every day), I ended up with two simultaneous earworms bellowing triumphantly in my head:
- Joe Raposo, "Who Are the People In Your Neighborhood," Sesame Street
- Fred Rogers, theme song, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood ("It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, it's a beautiful day for a neighbor / Would you be mine, could you be mine?")
And naturally, I can't help but remember how much Mom loved the musical output of both men (lots of people cried when Mr. Rogers died, but Mom cried when Raposo died as well), and that makes me flash on bringing her commemorative newspaper and magazine articles about Fred Rogers in the hospital. She loved him, truly and purely, and put him up there on her mental shelf of bodhisattvas right alongside the Dalai Lama. I'm not going to claim he was otherwise.
I do own a red zip-up cardigan and red sneakers, but I've never begun a class by doing the whole routine, mainly because part of it involves throwing the "grownup shoes" in the air and catching them. And, like Krist Novoselic at the 1995 MTV Music Awards, I'm great with the throwing part, but not so much with the catching. (At the end of the performance, while Cobain and Grohl were enthusiastically putting mic stands through amps and whatnot, Novoselic clocked himself on
the head with his own bass. Owies.)
